by Neil McKenna
`a certain taint of vulgarity about it': Letters, page 317.
`The sin was mine': Stuart Mason, Bibliography o f Oscar Wilde (London, 1914), page 47.
`a virtual divorce': Otho Holland Lloyd to Arthur Ransome, 28 February 1912, in Ellmann, page 278.
`heavenly hills': Symonds, Memoirs, page 203.
`nothing base': Symonds, Memoirs, page 204.
`But who is this that cometh by the shore?': Mason, Bibliography, page 47.
`leaders of Hellas': diary of George Ives, 31 March 1894, HRC.
`Bosie, from his friend the author': inscription made by Oscar Wilde, in Winwar, Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties, page 189.
`Shelley with a chin': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, pages 303-304.
`full of much that is dainty': Letters, page 327.
I can recognise a whole life': Letters, page 351.
`fanning out': Interviews and Recollections, volume II, pages 303-304.
`a most charming fellow': Letters, page 327.
`With Oscar Wilde, a summer day': Letters, page 367.
`To Richard Le Gallienne, poet and lover': Ellmann, page 283.
`This copy of verse': Ellmann, page 283.
`Oscar Wilde, sweet "Fancy's child"': Karl Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia (New York, 1998), page 193.
`Bother space and time!': Letters, page 368.
`Yea! Dear Poet': Small, Oscar Wilde Revalued, pages 77-78.
`To say of these poems': Oscar Wilde, Pall Mall Gazette, 27 March 1885, in d'Arch Smith, Love In Earnest, pages 30-31.
`The first is beauty': Andre Raffalovich, `Two Loves', in d'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest, page 31.
`Of all sweet passions': Lord Alfred Douglas, Sonnets (London, 1935), page 23.
`You could give me a new thrill': Ellmann, page 282.
`the more dangerous affections': Jerusha Hull McCormack,5ohn Gray: Poet, Dandy & Priest (London, 1991), page 148.
`Oscar says he likes you so much': Alexander Michaelson, `Oscar Wilde', Blackfriars, volumeVlll, number 92 (November 1927), page 700.
`Never again did I speak': Michaelson, `Oscar Wilde', page 700.
`We'd like a table for six, please': Rupert Croft-Cooke, The Unrecorded Life of Oscar Wilde (London, 1972), page 10.
`he came to London with the intention': Letters, page 256.
a foetus in a bottle': Sherard, The Life of Oscar Wilde, page 97.
`a dislike, not of a friendship': Hull McCormack, John Gray, page 47.
IEolian harps
`This passion for beauty': unpublished notebook of Oscar Wilde at Princeton in Hull McCormack, john Gray, page 53.
`You will find him everything': Letters, page 360.
`My reception was semi-royal': Letters, page 360.
`a violent brain attack': Oscar Browning to his mother, March 1889, in H.E. Wortham, Oscar Browning (London, 1927), page 222.
`fair sailor': Ian Anstruther, Oscar Browning (London, 1983), page 134.
`his admiring cohort': Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, edited by Rupert HartDavis (New York, 1965), page 287.
`sons': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, translated by Sian Jones.
`the exquisite }Eolian harps that play': `Oscar Wilde by an American [Max Beerbohm]', in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, page 287.
`I wish you would send me': Letters, page 375.
`My dear Adonis': Letters, page 282.
`I send you your necktie': Letters, page 482.
`What a pretty name you have!': Letters, page 418.
`Dear Mr Hill, Come and have tea on Friday': Letters, page 380.
`What do you allow': Letters, page 347.
`I wish I could draw like you': Letters, page 347.
`What a charming time we had at Abbott's Hill': Letters, page 352.
`For people whom one has had': Letters, page 1095.
`terrible': Ellmann, page 283.
`There is something about them': Ellmann, page 283.
`You are completely without feeling': Ellmann, page 283.
`a literary tavern': Max Beerbohm to Reginald Turner, 29 September 1893, in Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner, pages 71-72.
`Vociferous young writers': Rupert Croft-Cooke, Bosie: Lord Alfred Douglas (New York, 1963), page 43.
`I hasten to write': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 12 November 1888, Clark Library.
`I never told you': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 12 November 1888, Clark Library.
`I shall as soon as I get them': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 12 November 1888, Clark Library.
`I have heard from Barnes': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 1889, Clark Library.
`Dear Oscar, I could not help': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 1889, Clark Library.
`Dear Oscar, I shall be at the Lyric': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 1889, Clark Library.
`My dear Oscar, I have an invitation': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 19 March 1889, Clark Library.
`The other evening': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 19 March 1889, Clark Library.
`The afternoon post': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 4 June 1889, Clark Library.
`Your letter just received': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 4 June 1889, Clark Library.
`How furious you will be': Frederick Althaus to Oscar Wilde, 4 June 1889, Clark Library.
Spiritualised sodomy
`Literature has always anticipated life': Works, pages 1083-1084.
`To the onlie begetter': Works, page 315.
`Mr W. Hall happinesse': William Shakespeare, Sonnets, edited by Stephen Booth (New York, 1977), page 548.
`Indeed the story is half yours': Letters, pages 407-408.
`subtle and secret poisoner': Works, page 1093.
`He loves Greek gems, and Persian carpets': Works, page 1095.
`determined to startle the town as a dandy': Works, page 1095.
`sought to be somebody': Works, page 1095.
`had that curious love of green': Works, page 1095.
`remarks that he cannot': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page 61.
`It has also been remarked': Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, page 166.
`The colour green and Hell': Interviews and Recollections, volume I, page 355.
`whose personality for some reason': Works, page 307.
`a full-length portrait of a young man': Works, pages 302-303.
`effeminate': Works, page 304.
`People who did not like him': Works, page 304.
`as a -sacrifice to the secret of the Sonnets': Works, page 311.
`I believe in Willie Hughes': Works, page 312.
`His very name fascinated me': Works, pages 319-320.
`as some fair-haired English lad whom': Works, page 332.
`the mystery of his sin or of the sin': Works, page 320.
`deciphering the story': Works, page 343.
`cause': Works, page 348.
`I still believe in Willie Hughes': Works, page 348.
`was explaining why': Margot Oxford, More Memories (London, 1933), page 116.
`the ambiguity of the sexes': Works, page 330.
`It is only when we recognise': Works, page 325.
`young Roman': Works, page 327.
`kind of mystic transference': Works, page 325.
`the soul, the secret soul': Works, page 344.
`a rapture on "the golden hair"': The World, 10 July 1899, in Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia, page 290.
`Our English homes': Pearson, The Life o f Oscar Wilde, page 148.
`did Oscar incalculable injury': Harris, Oscar Wilde, page 69.
Shadow and song
`My weakness is that I do': Frank Benson to Robert Sherard, MS1047, University of Reading.
`gross bodily appetite': Works, page 325.
`Love had, indeed, entered': Works, page 325.
`the quenchless flame': Works, page 839.
`very aesthetic and romantic looking'
: Montrose J. Moses and Virginia Gerson, Clyde Fitch and His Letters (Boston, 1924), pages 46-47.
`slight, dark': Moses and Gerson, Clyde Fitch and His Letters, pages 85-86.
`many of the more charming qualities': Moses and Gerson, Clyde Fitch and His Letters, page xii.
`dire consequences': Moses and Gerson, Clyde Fitch and His Letters, pages 17-18.
`I believe myself that the Romance': Clyde Fitch to Kate Douglas Wiggin, 30 November 1894, in Moses and Gerson, Clyde Fitch and His Letters, page 97.
`What a charming day': Letters, page 403.
`You precious maddening man': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, July 1889, in Melissa
Knox, Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide (London, 1994), page 151.
`invent me a language': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, July 1889, in Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 151.
`Nobody loves you as I do': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, in Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 151.
`You are my poetry': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, in Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 151.
`Wisden is obvious': Letters, page 408.
`Somebody I used to like is at Ostend': Letters, page 409.
`It is 3. And you are not coming': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, in Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 151.
`I am so glad': Clyde Fitch to Oscar Wilde, in Knox, Oscar Wilde, page 151.
`Out of the mid-wood's twilight': Works, page 874.
`These men are mad': Works, page 595.
`In some parts of Ireland': Pine, The Thief of Reason, page 255.
`magic mirror of the moon': Letters, page 709.
`Romance is a profession plied beneath the moon': Letters, page 1119.
`Clyde Fitch from his friend Oscar Wilde': Beckson, The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia, page 102.
`It is quite delightful': Ellmann, page 307.
`I saw Mr Ricketts on Saturday': Letters, page 410.
`Oh, nonsense, Oscar': Pearson, The Life q f Oscar Wilde, page 193.
`a decaying piece of oak and framed it in': Letters, page 412.
`My dear Ricketts, It is not a forgery at all': Letters, page 412.
`the one house in London': The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, page 39.
`Somebody pointed out to her': Brocard Sewell, In the Dorian Mode: A Life ofJohn Gray (Cornwall, 1983), page 14.
`And Beauty is a form of genius': Works, page 31.
`passionate adoration', Works, page 307.
John and Dorian
`There is something tragic': Works, page 1245.
`father then commands': Hull McCormack, Sohn Gray, page 17.
`I have lost my father': Hull McCormack, John Gray, page 97.
`at one of those Soho': Frank Liebich, `Oscar Wilde', Clark Library.
`hinted, rather vaguely': Liebich, `Oscar Wilde', Clark Library.
`John Gray and I talked but little': Liebich, `Oscar Wilde', Clark Library.
`complex multiform creature': Works, page 107.
`Dorian': Ernest Dowson to Arthur Moore, 2 February 1891, Ernest Dowson, Letters, edited by Desmond Flower and Henry Maas (London, 1967), page 182-183.
`I have made great friends': Lionel Johnson to Campbell Dodgson, 5 February 1891, in Hull McCormack, John Gray, page 55.
`As I came downstairs': Arthur Symons, The Memoirs of Arthur Symons (London, 1975), page 136.
`Dorian': Croft-Cooke, Feasting With Panthers, page 209.
`Dorian': Letters, page 625.
`The Dorians gave': Symonds, Sexual Inversion, page 24.
`extraordinary personal beauty': Works, pages 18-19.
`little more than a lad': Works, page 23.
`boy': Oscar Wilde, The Picture ofDorian Gray [Lippincott's Monthly Magazine], edited by Donald L. Lawler (New York and London, 1988), page 180.
`I turned half-way round': Works, page 21.
`terrible joy and no less terrible despair': Works, page 307.
`white purity of his boyhood': Works, page 40.
`made to be worshipped': Works, page 90.
`From the moment I met you': Works, page 89.
`idolatry': Works, page 89.
`There was love in every line': Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Lawler, pages 232-233.
`the secret of his soul': Works, page 20.
`He likes me': Works, page 24.
`selfish, over-concerned': Hull McCormack, John Gray, pages 151-152.
`beautiful voice': Works, page 28.
`could not help liking': Works, page 30.
`The aim of life is self-development': Works, page 28.
`To realise one's nature perfectly': Works, page 28.
`Courage has gone out of our race': Works, page 28.
`We are punished': Works, pages 28-29.
`You, Mr Gray, you yourself: Works, page 29.
`Stop!': Works, page 29.
`Of all sweet passions': Lord Alfred Douglas, `In Praise of Shame', Sonnets, page 23.
`life's mystery': Works, page 30.
`touched some secret chord': Works, page 29.
`touched my backside': E.M. Forster, terminal note to Maurice (London, 1971), page 217.
`To project one's soul': Works, page 40.
Scarlet threads
`There is no such thing': Works, page 17.
`to gather up the scarlet threads of life': Works, page 77.
`I am so glad you like': Letters, page 585.
`I felt that this grey': Works, page 47.
`As I lounged in the park': Works, page 47.
`There are moments, psychologists tell us': Works, page 137.
`Why is your friendship': Works, page 112.
`Why is it that every': Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Lawler, page 258.
`Does not this passage': Holland, Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess, page 102.
`The passion I had tried to stifle': Wilde and Others, Teleny, pages 109-110.
`I do not think': John Addington Symonds, Sexual Inversion, page 150.
`Then there are other stories': Works, page 113.
`old acquaintance': John Addington Symonds, Memoirs, page 253.
`Imagine a girl, hardly seventeen years of age': Works, page 49.
`a beautiful young girl': Letters, page 224.
`sudden mad love': Works, page 54.
`shallow and stupid': Works, page 72.
`All excess': Letters, page 435.
`a life of mere sensation': Letters, page 430.
`I went through instruction': John Gray to Andre Raffalovich, early February 1899, in Sewell, In the Dorian Mode, page 89.
`The hero, the wonderful': Works, page 97.
`I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees': Letters, page 739.
`I don't regret': Letters, page 739.
`a New Hedonism': Works, page 99.
`The future would be the same as our past': Works, page 54.
`Romance lives by repetition': Works, page 142.
`preaching corruption': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, translated by Sian Jones.
`He was interested': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, translated by Sian Jones.
`He knew the little anecdotes': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, translated by Sian Jones.
`the downward path': Raffalovich, Uranisme et Unisexualite, translated by Sian Jones.
Outlawed noblemen
`Not a year passes': Works, page 528.
`It is quite tragic for me': Letters, page 569.
`a certain immoral': The Trials o / `-Oscar Wilde, edited by H. Montgomery Hyde (London, 1949), page 344.
`very dangerous': Walter Pater to Frank Harris, 1890, in Frank Harris, Contemporary Portraits (New York, 1919), pages 215-216.
`Even in the precincts': Robert Ross to Oscar Wilde, 1890, Clark Library.
`Oscar once talked to me': Michaelson, `Oscar Wilde', page 700.
`Oscar really is too bold': Walter Pater to Frank Harris, 1890, in Harris, Contemporary Portraits, pages 215-216.
`is an odd and very audacio
us': John Addington Symonds to Horatio Forbes Brown, in Symonds, Letters, page 477.
`a great wobbly blancmange': Douglas Murray, Bosie: A Biography o f Lord Alfred Douglas (London, 2000), page 47.
`He had been at Oxford': Ellmann, page 320.
`It hardly seemed fair': Ellmann, page 320.
`insane heat': Harris, Contemporary Portraits, pages 215-216.
`unmanly, sickening, vicious': Stuart Mason, Art and Morality (London, 1912), page 200.
`Ganymede-like': Mason, Art and Morality, page 159.
`Dullness and dirt are the chief feature of': Mason, Art and Morality, page 65.
`Whether the Treasury': Mason, Art and Morality, page 28.
`I am quite incapable of understanding how': Letters, page 428.
`We have received': Ward, Lock & Co to Oscar Wilde, 10 July 1890, CRIM 1 41/6, Public Record Office (PRO).
`What is the use of writing of': Ellmann, pages 321-322.
`Why go grubbing in muck heaps?': Mason, Art and Morality, page 75.
`The story - which deals with matters': Mason, Art and Morality, page 78.
`I got it doing some private work': Colin Simpson, Lewis Chester and David Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair (Toronto, 1976), page 16.
`I will tell you the truth': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 16.
`I made the acquaintance': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 17.
`He said - good evening': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, page 18.
`On one or two occasions': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, pages 21-22.
`another nice little boy': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 22.
`On one occasion at least': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 22.
`I think it is hard': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 25.
`Observation has been kept': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 26.
`I am told that Newton': Simpson, Chester and Leitch, The Cleveland Street Affair, pages 73-74.
`Prince Eddy and I must': Lord Arthur Somerset to Reginald Brett, in Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 59.
`a travesty': Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 53.
`This afternoon Sir Dighton Probyn': the Hon. Hamilton Cuffe to the Lord Chancellor, 16 October 1889, in Hyde, The Cleveland Street Scandal, page 90.